To what extent can we understand and account for music perception as a creative process? In this paper draw on recent work in music, creativity, the cognitive humanities to suggest that fundamentally aspect of is not yet satisfactorily examined existing research. We briefly review state scholarship into both creativity perception, identify key points convergence, which are prominent investigate...

This article explores how a kindergarten teacher educator (Ida) and somatic dance (Live) collaboratively bodily planned workshops for teachers with the aim of developing teachers’ professional knowledge. The focus is on educator’s teacher’s planning process. Methodologically, positioned within arts-based collaborative research, which defined under an umbrella performative researchers inside res...

Despite the coherence and seeming directness of our bodily experience, our perception of the world, including that of our own body, may constitute an inference based on ambiguous sensory data and prior expectations. In this article, I apply a 'psychologised' version of the recently proposed free energy framework to the understanding of certain disorders of neurological unawareness in order to e...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to explore and describe the reliability and validity of an instrument to measure preschool children's reactions to and coping with indoor noise at preschools or day care centres. DESIGN Data were derived from an acoustical before and after intervention study providing repeated measurements. SETTING The study was performed at seven preschools in Mölndal, S...

Understanding other people is an important and consequential task, and it is thus not surprising that the perceptual system is attuned to extract relevant information (e.g. social categories, identity, traits, and intentions) available in the faces, bodies, and voices of other people. As a result, social information is quickly inferred from even a brief glimpse of another’s face, although this ...

Four studies examined the relationship between mindfulness and interoception (measured via cardiac perception). Studies 1 and 2 compared participants undergoing week long practice (15 m daily) of an audiotaped body-scan, relative to a sound-scan and no-intervention control condition (n=20 per group). No significant differences in change in cardiac perception accuracy, confidence in cardiac accu...

Why should a scientist whose aim is to unravel the neural mechanisms of perception consider brain-body interactions seriously? Brain-body interactions have traditionally been associated with emotion, effort, or stress, but not with the "cold" processes of perception and attention. Here, we review recent experimental evidence suggesting a different picture: the neural monitoring of bodily state,...

When interacting with others, we often use bodily signals to communicate. Among these signals, pointing, whether with the eyes or the hands, allows coordinating our attention with others, and the perception of pointing gestures implicates a range of social cognitive processes. Here, we review the brain mechanisms underpinning the perception and understanding of pointing, focusing on eye gaze pe...